Work could start soon on converting the closed Winn-Dixie in Brierwood Village Plaza into an Aldi discount grocery store.
The city is reviewing a permit application for Williams & Rowe Co. Inc. to demolish the interior and some exterior spaces at the store at 8775 Old Kings Road S. to prepare it for renovation for an Aldi market.
WinnDixie.com says the website for the Brierwood Village store is down temporarily and another online listing says it is permanently closed.
The city is reviewing a permit application for the estimated $9,300 demolition project.
The city also has been reviewing an application submitted in December 2024 for the estimated $810,000 build-out conversion.
While the site brochure for Brierwood Village Plaza shows Aldi in the entire 42,240-square-foot space, the no-frills chain typically uses about half that size. No space dimensions are indicated in the permits in review.
Aldi stores are smaller than Winn-Dixie and sister brand Harveys supermarkets.
APD Engineering & Architecture PLLC of Victor, New York, is the agent for the Old Kings Road permit.
The site is at Old Kings and Baymeadows roads, a mile west of Interstate 95 and a quarter-mile west of Philips Highway.
A leasing brochure from NAI Hallmark shows that Aldi has leased the Winn-Dixie store. Vice President Austin Kay, a retail specialist, represents the landlord, Jacksonville-based TSG Realty. Another brochure says renovations are beginning in February 2025.
Other tenants include Planet Fitness.
Duval County Property Appraiser records show the store and shopping center were built in 1977.
Three other Aldi conversions identified so far comprise:
• The 9 a.m. March 20 opening of Aldi at the converted Harveys Supermarket in Edgewood Square in Northwest Jacksonville at a project cost of $810,000. T.D. Farrell Construction Inc. of Alpharetta, Georgia, was the contractor for the 21,839-square-foot project at 2261 Edgewood Ave. W. Harveys operated in a 46,189-square-foot space.
• The city issued a permit March 4 for T.D. Farrell Construction to renovate an Arlington store at 6060 Fort Caroline Road, Unit 10, at a project cost of $1.451 million. Plans show Aldi will lease 22,919 square feet of the 47,188-square-foot space that Winn-Dixie uses in the Fort Caroline Trading Post.
• In Clay County, Aldi proposes to convert a Winn-Dixie in Fleming Island at an estimated project cost of $1.75 million. The Eagle Harbor Winn-Dixie is at 1545 County Road 220. About 24,740 square feet of space would be converted within the roughly 52,000-square-foot store.
German grocer Aldi bought Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers Inc., with about 400 Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarkets in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi, as of March 7, 2024.
Less than a year later, a private investment group led by former Southeastern Grocers CEO and President Anthony Hucker announced Feb. 7, 2025, that it bought 170 of those stores as well as the Winn-Dixie liquor store business.
The February news release said Southeastern Grocers will continue to operate the remaining stores identified for conversion to Aldi until they are closed for the renovation.
Aldi stores are about half the size of the Southeastern Grocers supermarkets that are being converted, which means landlords will have more space available for lease.
The company has about 2,400 U.S. stores and said the Southeastern Grocers acquisition was part of a plan to add 800 stores nationwide by 2028 through new openings and store conversions.
Aldi has at least 13 stores in Northeast Florida, comprising eight in Jacksonville and five in Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties.